McCain helped defeat the Fair Pay Act this week – which concerns your pay check and that guy in the cube next to you.

If you have the same education and training as the guy next to you, you’re making less money. Here’s a statistical fact: If you’re a childless woman you make 73 cents to his dollar. If you’re a mother you make only 60 cents to his dollar.

The Fair Pay Act would have allowed you to sue your company for discrimination for this inequality.

McCain says he doesn’t think our lack of pay equity this is “fair.” But he also doesn’t think you deserve to be allowed to do anything about it.

As reported on Foxnews.com McCain thinks you should go back to school because Equal training, education and experience isn’t going to cut it in his patriarchal world. Evidently he thinks women should have to have MORE training, education and experience than their male counterparts to make the same dollar. That or he’s confused about what the word “same” means.

McCain stated his opposition to the bill as he campaigned in rural eastern Kentucky, where poverty is worse among women than men. The Arizona senator said he was familiar with the disparity but that there are better ways to help women find better paying jobs.

“They need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else,” McCain said. “And it’s hard for them to leave their families when they don’t have somebody to take care of them.

“It’s a vicious cycle that’s affecting women, particularly in a part of the country like this, where mining is the mainstay; traditionally, women have not gone into that line of work, to say the least,” he said.

Hey McCain – same means it compares a teacher to a teacher and a minor to a miner not a teacher to a miner. Maybe you should read the bills before you screw half the population.

Yeah, McCain I can see why you find lawsuits unpleasant. No one likes them.

I have to point out though – if you and your boys’ club were OFFERING to pay us THE SAME for the SAME work – we wouldn’t feel compelled to sue you.

Momsrising has a clever response. They’re asking women to send their resumes in just to prove that yeah – we went to the effort to getting those educations, training and experience and we’re still not being paid the SAME!

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McCain Against Equal Pay

The Supreme Court’s decision in the Ledbetter v. Goodyear case in May severely limited the ability of victims of pay discrimination to vindicate their rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Ledbetter Fair Pay Act restores the law to how it was previously applied to be consistent with Congress’ intent and the Court’s own precedents. The bill would also apply to all claims of discrimination in compensation. Thanks to the hard work of AAUW members and coalition partners, the House passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (H.R. 2831) in July.

AAUW believes the outcome in Ledbetter v. Goodyear is fundamentally unfair to victims of pay discrimination, which is responsible for a significant portion of the wage gap experienced by women and people of color. Although the wage gap has narrowed over the years, success in closing the gap remains elusive, and the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Ledbetter v. Goodyear case will make it even more difficult for women workers and employees of color to close the wage gap. With the exciting prospect of this bill moving forward in Congress, we must do our part to promote this legislation.

For this campaign, in addition to sending an email, we encourage you to use a new feature of our Two-Minute Activist: “See Me” to show your senator that you are the face of pay equity. After you’ve drafted your message and completed the “Sender Information,” you’ll find the “See Me” feature. Just click on “Include SEE ME information,” and follow the instructions to upload a digital picture of yourself and attach it to your message to your senators. In the comment box type in “I Am the Face of Pay Equity.” See other AAUW activists who have already shown their senators what pay equity looks like. If you don’t have a picture, you can still send an email on its own.

Follow this link to show your face and make your voice heard.

THIS is the face of pay equity.

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